Place and Date of Establishment:

Sina General Hospital, Tehran, Iran - 1994

Head: Zafarghandi Mohammad Reza, M.D.

Faculty Members: 

• Salimi Javad, M.D.
• Moini Majid, M.D.
• Taghavi Morteza, M.D.

Treatment Activities: About 1800 open surgeries and 1500 endovascular surgeries, annually.

Sina Hospital is the main center for referral vascular & endovascular patients in the country.

Educational Activities: Training endovascular surgeons according to the guidelines set by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, having an educational curriculum since 1995 with 22 qualified fellowship surgeons graduated from our department. They are experts in open & endovascular surgery, and they are working in different regions of the country as qualified vascular and endovascular surgeons.

Fellows participate in all of activities including:

• Open surgery of aorta, iliac, carotid, upper & lower extremity and visceral vessels.
• Endovascular surgery of aorta and peripheral vessels (artery & vein).
• Vascular access surgery.
• Morning report.
• Cath conference.
• Daily round.

Research Activities:

Active in research with more than 100 articles published in international journals with high citation.

Research Interests include:

• Vascular access
• Burger’s disease
• STEM Cell
• Femoral Pseudoaneurysm

Equipment:

• 24 beds
• Elective Surgery room
• Emergency surgery room
• Hybrid surgery room
• Catheterization lab
• Sonography lab